Watsr, decomposing power of, 181 

 Waterfall in India, 319 

 Water, flow of, by Zendrini, 115 

 „ gas, 293 



„ gauge, Newton's pat., 52 

 „| instrument for ascertaining the comparative 



saltness of, 91 

 ,, measuring of, Haigh's pat., 371 

 „ motion of, by Guido Grandi, 81 

 „ pressure of, upon fishes, ICO 

 „ Supply of, to steam-engine boilers, 179 

 „ „ from the new red sandstone, 188, 



381 

 „ Supply of, to Manchester, &c., report on, 

 (rev.), 177 

 Waterloo- bridge, extension of South-Western 



railway to, 254 

 Water-wheels, Parker's reaction, 110, 171 

 Waterworks, 96 



„ at Liverpool, 127 



„ embankments for reservoirs, 197 



Watson's pat. self-acting gas apparatus, 342 

 Wax, vegetable, 352 



INDEX. 



Waves, atmospheric, by Mr. Birf, 311 



„ velocity and height of, by Capt. Stanley, 310 

 Webster, on port and docks of Birkenhead (rev.), 



68 

 Welding iron and steel, 256 

 M'estern gas company, 82 

 Westminster, expenses of new palace at, 92, 228 

 „ review, No. XCVII., 245 



„ new palace, 245, 278, 295 



Wheels, balancing of, 222 



„ machine for forming the teeth of, 182 

 „ railway, Evans's pat., 189; Newton's, 114 

 White lead, manufacture of, 192 



„ paint from antimony, 128 

 White's new trenches for draining tiles, 320 

 White's theory and practice of shipbuilding 120 

 Whitehead, on practical surveying (rev.), 140 

 Whishaw's telegraph inventions, 217 

 Wicksteed's engine, 104 

 Williams, on the chemistry of the sea, 160 

 Wilson's pat. rotary steam-engine, 285 

 Wind, instrument for indicating the direction and 



force of, 127 



Window, gothic, at Boppart, on the Rhine, 129 



Window-tax, 1, 96 



M'ing walls of bridges, Clark on, 43 



Wire and hemp rope, comparative strength of, 352 



Wood and stone pavement, 272 



„ carbonized by high-pressure steam, 320 



„ for sleepers, preservation of, 224 



„ Payne's pat. fire-proof, 287 



„ pavement, action for infringement of pat., 

 256 



„ Renard's pat. for colouring and preserving, 



Wrighton's pat. apparatus for railways, 246 



Wrought-iron, analysis of, 315 



„ Roche's pat. for casting, 216 



„ tubular bowstring-bridges, 1, 300 



Wyatt, on the art of enamel, 156 



Wyatt, on Llandaflf Cathedral, 141 



Wye, wooden bridge over, 127 



Yoong's atmospheric railway, 224 



Young surveyor's preceptor, by J. Reid (rev.), 122 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Arches, oblique, 1 cut, 4 

 Arches, sUbility of, 1.1 cuts, 132 

 Axle-boxes and journals, 1 cut, :i*>0 

 Boring and sinlcing, 2 cuts, 170 

 Bridges, construction of, 7 cuts, 2, 23 

 Bridges, Sadler's pat. balance, 7 cuts, 75 

 Bridges, wing walls of, 2 cuts, 43 

 Buckingham palace, 1 cut, 7 

 Cement, experiments on, 3 cuts, 21*4 

 Cofferdam, 2 cuts, 2.'i2 

 Coffee-pot, Waller's, 1 cut, ll.i 

 Condenser for steam-engines, 2 cuts, 1 U 

 Coupling irons, 1 cut, 372 

 Deflection or vibration gaige, 2 cuts, 1 

 Docks, liliddtesborough, I cut, 10.5 

 Earthworks, 2 cuts, 119 

 Electiicity, lighting by, 5 cuts, 4i) 

 Embankments and cuttings, 4 cuts, 327 

 Fan blast, 1 cut, 18 



Fire cock, 2 cuts, IfiS 



Fluids, resistance to bodies in, 1 cut, 107 



Furnaces, blast of, I cut, 372 



Gas apparatus, self-acting, 1 cut, 342 



Gas burners, 2 cuts, 114 



Gas meters, 2 cuts, 369 



Girders for bridges, I cut, 300 



Gothic window, 1 cut, 129 



Hydraulic lifting jack, 1 cut, 217 



India-rubber tube cocks, 2 cuts, 144 



Iron, manufacture of, 1 cut, 171 



Isometrical peispectlve, 4 cuts, 230, 294 



Jointing clamp, 1 cut, 373 



Lighthouses, 2 cuts, 207 



Locomotive carriage wheels, 1 cut, 180 



Locomotive engines and breaks, 4 cuts,7fi 



Locomotive engines and carriages, 4 cuts, 



48, 167, 307 

 Mining lanthorn, 1 cut, 255 



Paddle ivheels, 1 cut, 168 



Paving, 1 cut, 272 



Perforating machine, 1 cut, 88 



Pile-driving machine, 2 cuts, 341 



Plan-pricking instrument, 1 cut, 272 



Pneumatic spring, 2 cuts, 4', 



Propellers, 6 cuts, 3'ir) 



Railway bars and chairs, 2 cuts, 170 



Railway buffers, 1 cut, 24'I 



Railway carriage axles, b cuts, 46 



Railway sections in sidelong ground, 



cuts, 07, 137 

 Railway wheels, 1 cut, 114 

 Reservoirs, embankments of, 4 cuts, 11*7 

 Rotary steam-engine, 1 cut, 285 

 Sack-holder, 1 cut. 111 

 Sewers and drains, 15 cuts, 41, 279, 372 

 Sewer traps, 2 cuts, 25, 372 

 Slide valves, 21 cuts, 14, 37 



Smoke consuming, 2 cuts, 113 



Steam-boiler fire-bars, 1 cut, 304 



Steam-boiler furnaces, 1 cut, 247 



Steam-engines, 5 cuts. 111 



Steam generator, 4 cuts, 360 



Steam valves, 23 cuts, 14, 37, 141 



Steering vessels, 1 cut, 47 



Stephenson (Geo.), portrait of, 329 



Vibrating piston-rod engine, 1 cut, 24 



Vice, 1 cut, 373 



Water, flow of, 9cuts, 81, 115 



Water gauge, 2 cuts, 62 



Water-wheels, 2 cuts, 110, 172 



Wheels, 2 cuts, 369 



Window, Gothic. 1 cut, 129 



Wood, preserving and colouring, 1 cut, 



143 

 Zinc ores, G cuts, 343 



DIRECTIONS TO BINDER. 



Plate I. Wrouglit-iron Tubular Bow Bridge 



II. Palmer's Improvements in Gas .. 



III. Willingtun and Ouse Burn Viaduct 



IV. Dinti:ig Vale Viaduct 



V. Sanitary Improvements, Plan of Drainage 

 Vli Coal Staitli, Widdlesborough-on-Tees .. 



opposite page 



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Plate VII. Baptist Chapel, Bloomsbury 



„ VIII. Conway Tubular Bridge 



„ IX. Imperial Insurance OlBce 



,, X. XI- Jacquard Perforating Machine .. .. 



„ XII. Nasmyth and Co. 's Steam Plle-Driver 



,, XIII, Railway Station, Newcastlc-on-Tyne, Plan of 



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